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1811–1872 United States
Horace Greeley (3 February 1811 – 29 November 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, New York Tribune, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer and a politician.
United States Editors Journalists Also known as: Greeley, Horace
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Greeley on Lincoln (1893)
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West.
The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other.
I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.
One of the most happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City... No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New-York audience.
Mr. Marx has very decided opinions of his own, with some of which we are far from agreeing, but those who do not read his letters are neglecting one of the most instructive sources of information on the great questions of current European politics.
...and that every hour of deference to slavery is an hour of added and deepened peril to the Union.
There aren't half enough of them going there as it is.
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